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Secrets

Chapter 2: One of Us

When Lunch time rolled around, Roxas was beyond nervous. How would he act? What would he say? Maybe he shouldn've listened to Riku. No! I can do this! I just have to be myself... Well, isn't that what all parents tell you before the kindergarten bully pushes you in the sandbox and steals your animal crackers. Roxas took the long way to the cafeteria, and when he arrived, all the other members of The Organization were already there. Crap, what if they thought he was irresponsible because he was late? Roxas walked closer to the table, uneasy until Axel spoke up.

"Oh, there he is. That's him Larxene, the kid I was telling you about." Axel had a charming cheshire grin on his face.

"I recognize him, he's the new sophmore that hangs out with Riku and his loser friends. Well," Larxene turned, addressing Roxas now, "You're late... fashionably late, very fabulous."

"But I'm the fabulous one!"

"Shut it Marluxia!"

"Well, better late than never." Axel chuckled. "You had me worried for a second, kid. I was starting to think you declined my offer."

"Don't call me kid." The blonde snapped.

"Ooh, feisty." Larxene giggled. "I think you'll be great fun until I get bored of you."

"Um, excuse me?"

"Well, Roxas, how about you tell us something about yourself?" Marluxia interrupted, glancing over the blonde curiously.

"What do you want to know?"

"Oh, anything really. What do you think we wanna know? Larxene giggled loudly. Roxas was nervous. What did they want to hear?

"W-well, I... um..."

"Demyx where have you been?" Axel shouted, interrupting Roxas and potentially saving him from making a fool of himself.

"Ze-, I mean, Mr. Schemer wanted to see me after class, remember?" The blonde said, taking a seat at the table.

"Well, yeah, but lunch is half over already. What took so long?" The red head pestered.

"Nothing, he just gave me a detention."

"That's all?"

"Yeah... wait..." Demyx did a double take when he spotted Roxas. "Who's he?"

"This, my naive friend, is Roxas. Roxas, this is my best and very first friend, Demyx." Axel introduced the two blondes, the sly grin never leaving his face.

"Wow, a new member! I'm so excited!"

"He's not a member yet, Demyx." Larxene intervened, a scowl prominent on her face. "First, he has to give us his secret."

"My secret?" Roxas questioned.

"Yes, you see, Roxas, in order to join the Organization, we must all know one secret about you."

"For example," Xigbar started. "My secret is that the real reason I wear this eyepatch, is because I have mismatched eyes. The reason my eyes are like that is because my parents are brother and sister. Besides my family, the members of the Org. are the only dudes who know."

"And I," Luxord smiled deviously. "am only the king of games because I've found at least a million and one ways to cheat at any given game."

"Go on Marly, tell the new guy your secret." Larxene prodded.

"Well," Marluxia started. "My secret is that I'm illiterate, and Larxene is terrified of all insects, even butterflies."

"My secret is that I have a real kink for cars." Axel blushed and chuckled nervously. "And Demyx is gay."

"Axel!" Demyx shouted, offended."

"Well someone had to tell him, and I knew you weren't going to." The two laughed. Roxas' eyes then turned to Xaldin.

"Oh, um, I'm jewish." The side-burned creep said in his deep, monotone voice.

"You're jewish? That's your secret?" Roxas asked, confused.

"Shut up, not every one has an epic secret like Marluxia not being able to read!" Xaldin snapped angrily.

"Hey!" The pink haired teen shouted.

"What about you?" Roxas asked, looking towards Lexaeus. The ginger was silent.

"He's not going to answer you." Axel said, leaning in closer to the blonde.

"Why not?"

"You see, Lexaeus is the only exception to the rule. We don't know anything about Lexaeus. He just started sitting with us one day and never left."

"Of course, it's still in our benefit though." Larxene added. "Not many kids are dumb enough to mess with a guy as big as Lexaeus."

"Now," Axel chuckled. "What secret are you going to reveal to us?"

"I don't understand why you need a secret from me, or anyone else in the group for that matter."

"Oh, it's pretty much just something we can use against you if you ever try to leave the group. Why do you think the whole school knows that Riku's gay?"

"Riku told me he came out of the closet in middle school."

"Oh? Well, looks like your little Riku wasn't being truthful to his friend now was he?" Larxene giggled sadistically. "No, we forced Riku out of the closet last year when he left the Organization. So, we already told you our secrets, now you have no choice but to tell us yours."

"Um, okay... I'm..." Roxas took a breath. "I'm a virgin, does that count as a secret?"

"It'll do for now." Larxene smiled a sadistic smile.

"Welcome to the Organization, Roxas." Axel grinned. "Everyone, this is Roxas, The Innocent One!"

"Wait, what?" The blonde exclaimed.

"It's your title in the Org." Xigbar explained. Roxas felt like face-palming. The innocent one? Seriously? Roxas sighed, maybe he really should've just listened to Riku.

~*~Reno: This be a page break, yo~*~

"So... WHAT HAPPENED!" Sora shouted loudly on the walk home from school.

"Ah! Sora, will you tone it down!" Roxas cried out, his hands over his ears.

"Sorry. But seriously how'd it go?"

"It went fine, I'm in."

"Perfect, did they tell you their secrets yet?"

"Yeah, they told me one from each person."

"Good, they trust you already. I find that odd."

"They've labeled me "The Innocent One" I guess they don't think I'm capable of back stabbing them."

"Well, how about for celebration, we have a little party at our house."

"That sounds great Riku!" Kairi said happily.

"Yeah, it'll be a lot of fun." Namine agreed.

"Okay it's settled then, stop by at 4, okay girls."

"Okay, Riku." They said simultaneously and took their leave.

~*~Reno: This be a page break, yo~*~

It was 6:30 and the group of friends were having crazy amounts of fun. They started the night with a burping contest between Sora and Riku, which Namine ended up upstaging both of them. Then, Sora challenged Roxas to a dance off and won hands down, currently the group was playing Twister. The door bell rang.

"That's probably the pizza guy." Riku said as he reached a leg over Sora's waist to get to a blue circle on the mat. "Roxas, you're standing go answer the door.".

"Okay, Namine you're in charge of the spinner until I get back."

"Okay Roxas.' Namine blushed as he went to the front door.

"Okay, this will be 15.99- wait... Roxas?" The tall, lanky boy took of his hat to reveal cascading ripples of spiky red hair. "What are you doing here."

"... This is my house." The blonde said bluntly.

"Oh, well, of course, duh." Axel did a face-palm and shook off the embarrassment. "Well, um, this is an awful lot of pizza for just you, Riku and your brother."

"Yeah, we're having party and... wait, how did you know Riku lived here, and I never told you I had a brother." Roxas glared at the red head suspiciously. Axel blushed and scratched the back of his head nervously.

"I-i didn't. I j-just assumed that, um... when you answered the door I just was sure that well, um..."

"Listen, just forget it okay." Roxas rolled his eyes and handed over the money. He was shutting the door when Axel put his foot in the way.

"Hey wait, this was my last run of the night, my shift is technically over now, and you said you were having a party in there... would it be okay if I joined you guys?"

Roxas sighed. "You're not going to take 'no' for an answer are you?" Axel just shook his head. "Okay fine." Roxas opened the door wider and let the red head into the house.

"Roxas what's taking so long, we're hungry." Roxas could here Sora complaining in the other room.

"I'm coming Sora, shut up." Roxas brought the pizza into the room and no one noticed Axel slip upstairs with a duffel bag to change out of his uniform.

"Finally, we were starving in here!" Sora whined some more, still tangled with Riku and Kairi on the Twister mat while Namine sat on the couch with the spinner on her lap.

"Well, hurry up and come eat."

"No way Roxas, we're in the middle of a game."

"Well you can't eat and play Twister at the same time."

"Well then feed me, because I'm not falling and loosing this game no matter wha- OH MY GOD WHY ARE YOU IN MY HOUSE!" Sora screamed and fell, which in turn made both Riku and Kairi come tumbling down. Namine just giggled. Axel stood at the foot of the stairs, still shocked from the screaming.

"I didn't break in, I swear!" Axel put his hands up in an 'i surrender' fashion. "Roxas let me in." Sora looked at Roxas, confusion in his eyes.

"He was the pizza guy." Roxas said in a whiny voice, as if it explained everything.

"I don't know much about Twilight Town, but here in Radiant Garden, we don't invite random pizza guys into our homes."

"Axel's not random, I know him."

"It doesn't matter."

"Just shut up and eat, Sora." Riku rolled his eyes and shoved a slice of pizza into the brunette's mouth. Roxas sighed, this was going to be a long night.

~*~Reno: A few minutes previously, yo~*~

Axel made sure to be extra quite as he snuck up the stairs. He had to admit, even though he had no idea he was delivering to Roxas' house, he couldn't have asked for a better opportunity. Axel entered the first door in the hall way. It was a study, probably Cloud's. Axel looked through the filing cabinets and took a picture of each paper with his cell phone. When that was done he left the study and moved on to the next room. It was a single person's room, everything in it had some kind of key design on it and the walls were blue with white clouds. Axel assumed this was Sora's room. He dusted for prints, but didn't go searching through anything. The next room he ended up in was almost completely dark, the only light bulb was dim and the room had only one window which was covered by a thin black curtain. Axel dusted the whole room for prints. He looked through the drawers and under the bed and finally the closet. In the closet Axel found letters that were addressed to 'Riku Darkhart'. "Bingo." The red head chuckled. He quickly snapped a picture of each one. Although Axel had found what he needed, he saw one last door that he wanted to check out. He entered a small bedroom. Stars adorned everything and there was a large window showing off a great view of the city. Axel smiled, this room smelled just like Roxas. Axel left the room exactly the way it was and moved on to the bathroom to change.

As Axel drove home that night, he got out his cell phone and dialed a number he knew all to well.

"Ciao?" The voice asked.

"Hey, è Axel ... Ho avuto la informaton di cui avevamo bisogno"

"Perfetto, incontrarmi al solito posto, sto contando su di te, Lovino. Non rovinare questo momento." The voice chuckled and the line went dead.

Well, there it is! I know it's shorter that last chapter but, hey, I can't write a whole novel every chapter right? XD

TRANSLATIONS: (Italian)

"Ciao?" = Hello?

"Hey, è Axel ... Ho avuto la informaton di cui avevamo bisogno" Hey, it's Axel ... I got the information we needed

"Perfetto, incontrarmi al solito posto, sto contando su di te, Lovino. Non rovinare questo momento" = Perfect, meet me at the usual place, I'm counting on you, Lovino. Don't screw up this time.